John Darcy

1285 - 1347  (~ 67 years)

• Name	John Darcy
  Birth	Between 1280 and 1285	of Knaith, Lincolnshire, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	30 May 1347  [1, 3]
  Person ID	I17171	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	10 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Roger Darcy,   b. of Blyth, Nottinghamshire, England d. Bef 12 May 1284
  Mother	Isabel de Aton,   b. West Ayton, Yorkshire, England d. Aft 1316
  Family ID	F10710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Emmeline Heron,   b. Abt 1290   d. Bef 1329 (Age ~ 38 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1317  [3]
  Children	+ 1. John Darcy,   b. Abt 1317   d. 5 Mar 1356, Notton, Yorkshire, England (Age ~ 39 years)
  Family ID	F10702	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2017

  
  

  Family 2	Joan de Burgh   d. 23 Apr 1359
  Marriage	3 Jul 1329	Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Darcy   d. 24 Mar 1390
  Family ID	F8474	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Apr 2018

  
  

• Notes

  He was outlawed for unspecified felonies around 1306, and lost some of his lands, but he was pardoned 19 May 1307 at the request of Aymer de Valance, earl of Pembroke, in whose retinue he was in 1313, 1320, and 1321. This early brush with the law appears to have had little or no effect on his career, as demonstrated by the offices he subsequently held: Constable of Norham Castle, 1317; Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 1319-22; knight of the shire for Nottinghamshire, 1320; Sheriff of Lancashire, 1323; Justiciar of Ireland, 1323-27, 1328-31, 1332-37, 1340-44; Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1327-28; Steward of the King's Household, 1337-40; Chamberlain to the King, 1341-46 or later; Constable of Nottingham Castle, 1344-47; and Constable of the Tower of London, 1346-47. In addition to serving in Parliament as a "knight of the shire", he was also later summoned to Parliament by writ, thus serving in the 14th-century equivalents of the houses of Commons and Lords, respectively. The latter service was from 27 Jan 1332 to 2 Jan 1334, and the writs were directed Johanni Darcy le cosyn. He fought at Crécy, and was one of those sent from Calais, 8 Sep 1346, to announce the victory to Parliament.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3901] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Darcy Ancestry of Mrs. John Sherman." The American Genealogist 21:169, 1944. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., place only. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.